Dipper Pines' journal, June 22nd AKA, Summerween. A holiday made by Gravity Falls due to their love of Halloween which is the town's favourite holiday, probably. Me and my sister have been celebrating the holiday a lot ever since we first arrived in Gravity Falls. But it won't be just a newborn's first Summerween, it will be Hunter and Willow's. I explained Halloween and Summerween to them but they were surprisingly more excited about costumes than anything else. And if you can figure, they're going as O'Bailey and Bexley. But speaking of them two, Mabel would kill me if I don't talk about them, but they have been a couple for over a month now. I know! Crazy! And I'm not gonna lie, they're kind of perfect for each other. But the both of them are still learning about relationships and I find it amazing that they haven't had an argument. They just had a couple of movie dates and strolls and that's about it. But besides that, here are some adventures we had. We got locked in a bathroom by someone who really wanted to play board games with us, we also went to Anne's 14th birthday where she was having an existential crisis, Wendy and Willow participated in a lumberjack game where Willow ended up winning which Wendy thought was cheating due to her being a witch and I went hunting for the big white wolf but all I found was a very angry bear that had a little too much fairy dust. Also, me and Wendy competed in an arm wrestling competition where we were the last remaining contestants in the final round and when I held her hand I felt something inside me. I felt a vibe of some kind. Am I? By the way, tonight is the annual Mystery Shack Summerween party with a couple's costume contest involved as well. Willow and Hunter are hoping to win this year plus, I am hoping that I don't get into an awkward situation with Wendy.
Dipper, dressed in a white shirt, a red waistcoat, grey trousers, red frock coat, a brown hat and a very long red scarf, stood behind the counter writing in his journal where he was debating with himself about that last line. He narrowed his eyes at the sentence where he had just finished a drawing of Wendy as well.
Then, from behind him he was hearing a strange inhaling noise. He checked his ear with his pinky but he still heard the strange inhale that was getting louder.
Unknown to him, Mabel was rising behind him dressed in what appeared to be a nurse uniform, inhaling from her mouth. "OMG! You're in love with Wendy again!"
The scream from his sister caused Dipper to drop his book and pen. He turned and began to narrow his eyes at his sister.
"Mabel!" Dipper yelled angrily. "What have I told you?!"
"To not watch you while you write." Mabel replied. "But be honest bro, you know I wasn't gonna listen to that. But….Ahhh! You're in love with Wendy, again!"
"No!" Dipper slammed his journal shut. "I am not in love with Wendy again!"
Mabel grinned at her brother. "Ahhh! I know you're in love with her! It's written all over your face."
Dipper's cheeks briefly turned red for a second and he looked away from his sister. "Even if I was in love, I still need to recover." Dipper opened up his phone to look at a picture of him and Pacifica at the last Summerween Halloween party. Where he was dressed as a charming rogue with a white shirt and black waistcoat while she wore a metal gold bikini.
Mabel gave her brother a sad smile and put her hand on his shoulder. "I understand bro-bro. Hey, you remember last year at that Summerween party where you kind of complained to Pacifica that the costume was wrong for this since that combination weren't in the same scenes or whatever."
Dipper laughed. "But she only kept it on because she saw how much I loved it. And…." Dipper turned red in the face as he remembered his girlfriend in that outfit. "….It was hot."
"Not as hot as this." Mabel got out of the counter to show off her nurse uniform which showed a little too much leg. "I would have made it hotter, but I just wanted to give them a preview."
"Well, it does look good on you." Dipper remarked.
"Yup! If I don't get a cute guy by the end of the night, then they're gonna miss out on these!" She patted her bare legs.
"Mabel, you know you're attempts are never gonna work." Dipper said. "You're always too forward."
"I know, which is why I'm gonna wait for my prey to come up towards me and then….We have breakfast tomorrow morning." Mabel's plan made Dipper shake his head while chuckling.
"Ah, luring them in via false safe security, nice." Hunter remarked as him and Willow entered the room.
Hunter was dressed in a yellow and black uniform with black pants and a Saturn symbol sewn to his right breast and wearing a strange plastic eyepatch with a red eye in the centre. While Willow wore a blue long skirt with the same symbol and her braided hair was now a large black bun.
"I had no idea the female humans ate their male human counterparts." Willow remarked. "You aren't a succubus by any chance?"
Mabel was about to respond in her Mabel way but Dipper placed a hand on her mouth before she replied. "Mabel! Mabel! No." He then turned back to the kids. "Wow! You two are definitely gonna kill at this costume contest. Stitches show but it still looks good."
"Thanks Dipper." Hunter said while being prideful about his work. "I say it worked out amazingly. Even after I accidentally sewed the sewing machine on my hand."
"Oh! Hang on!" Willow summoned her polaroid camera and wrapped her arm around Hunter's shoulder. "Smile, Hunter."
Hunter and Willow smiled for the selfie, though Hunter's was a very ugly smile. The photo printed out of the camera and Willow smiled at how well it turned out.
"Oh! I love it!" Willow exclaimed happily.
Hunter groaned. "That smile is ugly."
Willow kissed her boyfriend's cheek. "Nah. I think it looks cute. My smile is ugly."
Hunter held his girlfriend's hand. "Nah. You have a pretty smile. I don't care what anyone says."
Willow's cheeks turned red that she quickly hid behind the photo. "Hunter, stop!"
Hunter then made a mocking grin. "Stop being cute and maybe I will."
Willow squealed. "Hunter!" She and him stared at each other lovingly which caused Mabel to gush.
"Aww! They're so good at flirting." Mabel laughed. "I knew my flirting book would come in handy." She then noticed Flapjack and Clover on the counter both dressed like each other in competently sewn together little onesies. "Aww! You two look adorable as well."
"By the way, what were you two talking about?" Willow asked.
"Dipper having a crush on Wendy." Mabel's response made Dipper groan.
"Mabel, I do not have a crush on Wendy!" Dipper argued.
"Tell that to your journal." Mabel retorted. She then gave a cheeky grin to Willow and Hunter. "He wrote about it in his journal and is in complete denial about it."
"Okay, I can't deny that Wendy is beautiful." Dipper said. "But, we weren't going to work out before and I doubt we ever will. And whatever outfit she wears this Summerween will not cause me to go flustered."
"Hey dudes." Wendy said. "What do you think of my outfit?"
Dipper looked at his sister and saw her pull a disgusted look at Wendy while Hunter and Willow look to be surprised.
"Nice drips, Dipper. Very 70's."
Dipper turned around to look at Wendy and his jaw instantly dropped at the sight of her. She was dressed in a black tank top that revealed her abdomen, wore some very short shorts, a poorly buckled belt and had her hair in a ponytail.
The mere sight of Wendy in the revealing costume made Dipper's face turn a large shed of red. "Wendy….You….You….You….You….You…"
"Stutter some more and I'll accuse you of being in love with me." Wendy retorted.
Dipper coughed to pull himself together. "Sorry. You look good! Amazing! Beautifully cool!"
Wendy smiled as her cheeks turned red. "Thanks."
Then, Stan and Ford walked in dressed as eggs and bacon respectively. "Everyone excited for the costume contest?" Stan asked.
"Hey Stan twins." Wendy said. "You look…." She struggled to find the right words.
"Just say we look ridiculous, Miss Corduroy." Ford, the one dressed as bacon, said.
"You look ridiculous." Wendy said.
"Ha! If we're so ridiculous, then why did we win the costume contest back in 1958?" Stan asked as he pulled up a picture of young Stan and Ford dressed as eggs and bacon respectively.
"Maybe because we were the only ones who came in costume." Ford sighed as he pinched his nose. "I can't believe you talked me into this."
Then, Soos and his five month pregnant wife walked in dressed as Dracula and his wife respectively. Both with pale skin to suit the role.
"Hey dudes, cool costumes." Soos said. "I hope ours doesn't 'suck.'
Mabel laughed at Soos' pun while Hunter stared on in confusion since he didn't quite grasp on the concept of puns yet.
"No Soos, yours looks brilliant." Dipper said. "By the way, you two did amazing with the makeup."
"Oh I'm not wearing makeup." Melody said. "I'm five months into my pregnancy and my skin has changed colour so I put no effort into it."
Dipper looked surprised. "Uh….Good job."
"I bet you guys can't wait for tonight." Soos said. "There's going to be a lot of dancing, candy, singing and of course that huge costume contest."
"If Grenda and her monarchist boy toy win again, I'm gonna be pissed." Stan said.
"Why?" Willow asked.
"They keep coming in not wearing any costumes and are instead dressed in their royal uniforms." Mabel replied.
"And someone doesn't keep track on the rules." Stan said while narrowing his eyes at his successor.
"I don't want my head chopping off!" Soos argued. "But it's not them I'm worried about. I'm also scared of the Summerween Demon."
"The Summerween who?" Everyone asked.
"What are you talking about?" Wendy asked.
"I haven't even heard of them until now." Ford said. "Heck, I didn't even find out about them when I first arrived."
Soos seemed surprised by this. "Wait, I haven't told anyone of the Summerween Demon?"
"No." Mabel replied. "Soos, you told us of the Summerween Trickster but the Summerween Demon is new to us."
"Wait, who's the Summerween Trickster?" Hunter asked.
"A very petty demon made of the candy nobody wants that became sentient and forces people to collect candy or else they will be consumed." Dipper replied.
Willow and Hunter seemed horrified by this information. "That sounds like something from the Demon Realm." Willow said.
Soos chuckled. "And don't you dudes worry about him, I ate him alive. Yup! I ate a man alive and I'm not forever haunted by it. Okay, guess this is a good time to tell you about this spooky dude." Soos turned off the lights and shut the curtains and locked the door to darken the room. He then shined a flashlight to his face to make him look scary. "The tale of the Summerween Demon. The Summerween Demon is said to be a creature that grants wishes to those who summon them. And that is to place a mirror on the stump of a tree, along with a candy corn that you set on fire, then you look in your reflection and say his name five times and then he comes to grant your wish. But those who grant such a wish pay a terrible price." The current Mr Mystery reached into his pocket and pulled out his sound effects app to play a thunderstorm striking.
Everyone in the shack had a different set of reactions. Dipper was intrigued, Mabel was terrified, Willow and Hunter were holding on to each other, Flapjack and Clover were shaking, Wendy was a little shocked, Stan looked uninterested while Ford looked like he was taking notes.
"What is the terrible price?" Mabel asked.
"The price….Is unknown." Soos said. "But everybody is too scared to find out what it is."
Hunter and Willow looked at Soos with suspicious reactions before they let go of each other. "But wait, if no one knows the price, then why the warning of this demon?" He asked.
"I don't know." Soos replied. "I just heard it from my Abuelita. She never wanted me to set fire to candy corns on tree stumps while staring at myself in the mirror."
"That sounds like a needlessly complicated hobby." Stan remarked.
"You dudes be prepared or be….." He turned the lights back on and began walking backwards into the living area. "….Scareeeeed. Wooooo." But the current Mr Mystery accidentally walked backwards into the wall. "Ow." But he eventually walked through the exit with his wife following.
"Uh! I'm getting cramps again!" She exclaimed.
Willow turned to the others. "I'm going to help out with the decorations."
"I just got to check on a few stitches." Hunter informed his girlfriend. "I have to look good for you."
"You look good, regardless." Willow assured him. "We better win or otherwise I won't be sharing my candy with you."
Hunter clutched his heart with a mock gasp. "Park, how dare you betray me?!"
Willow and Hunter laughed together before the plant Coven student left to help Soos and Melody with Clover following from behind.
Hunter's cheeks turned red at the sight of Willow. Him and her had been together for a month and he had never been any happier. He didn't know everything about being in a relationship but regardless, he was absolutely happy.
Wendy then placed her hand on Hunter's shoulder. "Man, you and her, gotta say, you are amazing together."
"I can't believe it has happened to me." Hunter said. "You know, if someone told me 7 months ago that I would gain an amazing Palisman, my uncle actually being an evil human set on wiping witches out and I get a girlfriend who is friends of an enemy to Belos, then I would have ordered you to suffer through community service."
"Not execution?" Wendy asked.
Stan sighed. "Community service. The most boring kind of punishment."
Hunter exhaled happily. "I really can't believe this has happened. Me and Willow together. Maybe I should get a tattoo when I'm older to replace my Coven sigil. A love heart with Willow's name in the centre."
Wendy gushed. "Aww, dude, that's sweet."
"Yeah, but that's a bad idea." Mabel's comment made Hunter turned around to face her.
He blew a raspberry. "Come on! Tattoos aren't a bad idea. Unless they're bad."
"No, I mean, it's a bad idea to get a tattoo with your significant other's name on." Mabel said.
"I think it's romantic." Hunter said. "I mean, why would it not be?"
"Hunter, I want to show you the biggest mistake of my life." Mabel declared.
"Besides starting the apocalypse." Stan's retort made Ford nudge him on his arm.
"Stanley!" Ford exclaimed.
"Hunter, this is the biggest mistake of my life." Mabel lifted up her nurse's outfit to reveal a no unicorn sign on her stomach.
Hunter looked at the tattoo with confusion. "Wait, what's your grudge against unicorns?"
"They're evil and that's unimportant!" Mabel turned around to reveal a huge heart tattoo with 'Jim's' name in the centre. "You see that, Hunter?"
But in doing so, Dipper tried to look away at her sister's anti-unicorn tattoo for how terrible it was.
Hunter squinted his eyes at the tattoo. "Who's Jim?"
"Mabel, could you put your shirt down? I do not want to see your terrible anti-unicorn tattoo." Dipper said.
"That's the point!" Mabel argued while pulling her shirt down. "Anyway, Jim was meant to be the love of my life. I even got a tattoo of his name engraved in a heart on his 19th birthday. But then the day after his birthday, he dumped me for the tattoo artist who gave me the tattoo!"
Hunter looked worried after hearing Mabel's story. "So, you're saying Willow could leave me for a tattoo artist?"
Wendy gave Hunter a concerned look. "What Mabel is saying that you and Willow might not last. Take it from me, I have been in a ton of relationships that did not last forever. And I think Mabel is saying that the same might happen to you and Willow."
After hearing what Wendy said he pulled a worried look before it turned into a cocky grin. "Nah! That ain't gonna happen. Believe me. I'm going to do amazing in my relationship that she won't leave me for a tattoo artist. Now if you excuse me, this uniform needs tending."
He walked out of the gift shop and up to his bedroom while the adults just watched on with concern.
"Poor kid." Mabel said. "He doesn't know he might suffer his first heartbreak."
"That kid is gonna summon the Summerween Demon and cause a lot of chaos." Stan predicted.
"Stanley!" Ford exclaimed. "The Summerween Demon isn't real!"
The two brothers began to march out of the gift shop while arguing. "That's what you said about hippie music not being some brainwashing technique! Well explain Carla 'Hotpants' Sixer!"
"I told you the hippie movement was just very new wave and everyone wanted in!" Ford argued.
"Mind control, Stanford!" Stan screamed. "Mind control!"
"I believe him." Wendy said. "After what happened with me and Robbie it seems likely."
"I'm going to the tattoo parlour to see if I can get that heart tattoo covered." Mabel declared before exiting the Shack.
"Mabel, you sure you don't want to put a coat on?" Dipper asked. "People might think you're a nurse."
"Don't feel like it, bro!" Mabel argued before exiting the Shack.
Wendy then leaned on the desk right next to Dipper, with him blushing. "Is that outfit Mabel's attempts to score a guy?"
"Yup." Dipper replied while his cheeks turned red at the sight of Wendy's outfit.
"We better not lose to Grenda and Marius again." Wendy said. "Man, remember how Pacifica reacted when your pretty awesome zombie outfits were somehow beaten by those monarchs?"
"Yeah. But you should have seen the aftermath." Dipper said before he began to flashback.
Dipper, 16 years old, was in the bathroom washing off the fake zombie makeup off his face while his 17 year old girlfriend was laying on his sister's bed arms spread out, still in her zombie make up.
It had been a few hours since they were somehow beaten by Grenda and her Austrian fiancé, Prince Marius. They were young but the Austrian monarchy was strange.
They had it all. Amazing costumes hand crafted by Mabel and amazing makeup work from a special effects wizard friend known as the Gore Daddy. But somehow, they were beaten by Prince Marius and Princess Grenda, whom weren't wearing costumes whatsoever.
After finishing cleaning his face, Dipper walked out of the bathroom and saw his girlfriend lying on her back on his sister's bed. She had an annoyed expression on her face over being beaten like that.
Dipper felt sorry for his girlfriend like that. He knew this was just a bit of fun but by default, they put the most effort into their costumes.
Dipper walked towards his girlfriend and laid his back on the bed with a sympathetic look on his face. The two just looked at the ceiling for a bit, performing random inhaled and exhales.
"It's unfair." Pacifica said.
"It is just for a bit of fun." Dipper said.
"I know but…." She groaned angrily. "…I would have been fine being beaten by someone else but being beaten by someone who weren't wearing costumes just pisses me off!"
"Completely unfair." Dipper said.
"Yup." She sighed sadly before Dipper began to stare at her with sympathy. "I just wish I could have won that trophy."
He then gave her a smile and reached into his pocket to reveal that he held the trophy in his hand. She shot up from the bed and stared at her boyfriend with surprise and took the trophy. She began to feel it and gasped.
"Dipper?"
"I know! I know! I stooped to my Grunkle's level but….Least I got us the trophy." Dipper smiled.
Pacifica narrowed her eyes at her boyfriend, looking like a rabid zombie in the process. This made Dipper freeze in fear and hid the trophy behind his back.
"You stole a trophy from royalty that they did not win fair and square?" Pacifica asked. "Knowing full well that we might be executed and have our heads on a spike on the Andreas Maurer Bridge?!"
"Okay, first: I don't think monarchs are allowed to do that anymore, second: That's impressive you know the name of an Austrian bridge and third: Yes."
Pacifica then smiled at her boyfriend and tackled him onto the bed. She began to attack her boyfriend with a barrage of kisses to his face and lips as they began a make out session.
Dipper pulled out of the kiss. "You know, from someone's perspective, they'd probably mistaken you for a zombie attacking me."
"Well, don't scream then." Pacifica said before she licked her lips. Then, she opened her mouth as if she was about to bite him.
Then, Pacifica was hit on the back of the head by a golf club. "Get off my brother, zombie!" Mabel, dressed in a blue robe and hair loopies, was beating Pacifica with a golf club.
"Mabel! That's Pacifica!" Dipper yelled.
Mabel gasped. "Noooo!" She screamed while beating Pacifica with a golf club. "Sorry Pacifica! Why did this happen to you?! Why?!"
In the present, Dipper and Wendy were laughing. "That explains why Pacifica had some bad bruises that morning!" Wendy laughed harder.
Then, the two were laughing together not realising that Wendy had her hand on top of Dipper's. But when they stopped laughing, they did notice and were both blushing.
Then, Stan walked into the room with a deadpanned look. "Uh…..About time."
Dipper and Wendy froze as they realised what was going on and they quickly removed their hands from each other.
"I'm gonna work on Project Last Resort!" Dipper announced before diving out the window.
"I have to jump out of the window while I come up with a good excuse!" Wendy yelled before jumping out the same window Dipper jumped out of.
Back upstairs in the attic, Hunter was busy making some finishing touches on his shirt with the sewing machine while Flapjack watched on.
Hunter, for whatever reason looked very focus on the shirt which was something Flapjack noticed. His little Palisman tweeted.
"I just don't want to ruin this shirt." Hunter said. "I have to have it look perfect." Flapjack tweeted again which made Hunter blow a raspberry. "Flap, little buddy, I assure you, I'm not going to hurt myself." Then he felt something cut his finger and cringed at the sight of his finger being cut. "Ow!"
Then, Willow walked in the room with a worried look on her face. "Oh no!"
Hunter turned red in the face as he realised that he wasn't wearing his shirt and tried to hide it from his girlfriend by putting a blanket to hide his scarred body. "Willow!"
"You're getting blood on the blanket." She summoned a box of band aids and approached her boyfriend. She then took the blanket off of her boyfriend and put the plaster on his cut finger. "There, we go."
"Sorry about that." Hunter said.
"Don't apologise." Willow said. "We're a couple. We're supposed to look out for each other." She wrapped her arm around him and placed a gentle kiss on his bare shoulder.
Hunter smiled at his girlfriend's words but then pulled a worried look after hearing what Wendy and Mabel told him a few minutes before. He had just started out on a relationship and already, he was worried about losing it.
"Hey…..Do you think you'll like me more as a tattoo artist?" Hunter asked.
Willow laughed. "Where did this come from?"
Hunter shrugged his shoulders. "Just a thought."
"Well, it's a job." Willow remarked. "I think I'd like you all the same."
Hunter smiled. "Yeah." Then the smile disappeared as it suddenly turned into one of worry. If only he could do something about his worry and make his relationship with that girl last longer.
Then Stan walked in with a bowl of candy corns. "Who wants candy corn?! I know we all hate them, but we need to eat them all."
In that moment, Hunter had a bright idea. A bright idea that was a very big risk.
"Also, Soos says we don't use them for any kind of ritual." Stan said.
A while later, Hunter was in the forest as he was on his knees in front of a tree stump with a handheld mirror he strategically stood up with a mirror stand. While Flapjack was on his shoulder, looking skeptical.
He then pulled out a candy corn from his pocket as well as a lighter from his pocket. He lit the candy corn on fire before he placed it on the stump.
He exhaled in relief. "Time to save a relationship." Then he pulled a worried and skeptical look. "But what if my actions have consequences? And isn't this also kind of selfish of me to wish for Willow to be with me instead of her being her own person?" He then shrugged his shoulders. "Look, you're not going to treat Willow like a prisoner. She's your girlfriend. She's a queen to you." He took a deep breath. "Summerween Demon." After he said it the first time, he heard a loud rumble coming from the woods. "Summerween Demon." Then, the sky began to turn dark. "Summerween Demon." Then the fiery candy corn began get bigger. "Summerween Demon!" Hunter's voice echoed in the woods as he yelled out his name which was causing his Palisman to look distressed. "Summerween Demon!" After saying his name for the last time, he expected the demon to suddenly appear like he was some kind of jump-scare.
He saw that the candy corn's fire had dispersed, leaving only a burnt candy corn while the mirror was not shattered but the sky had still turned dark.
He slumped his shoulders and sighed. "Well, guess I should accept the future as inevitable." He stood up off the ground and began walking back to the Shack with Flapjack by his side.
But unbeknownst to him, the mirror that was on the stump, had shattered and a black cloud had escaped.
Inside the shack, Stan was in the bathroom, dressed in his egg costume, holding a bottle of hot sauce in his hand. "I'm Stan and I was wrong. I'm singing the Stan Wrong song…" He put some hot sauce on his egg costume. "…I shouldn't have taken that chance."
"Now give me a remorseful dance."
Stan flinched as he heard someone sing the last part of the song, but with screwed up lyrics. "No! No! It's…." He froze when he saw who was standing by the open bathroom door. It was a silhouette of a young woman in her mid twenties wearing some very distinct hot pants.
When he saw those pants, Stan froze with surprise. "Carla McCorkle?! Hot Pants? Boy, judging by your silhouette you haven't aged. Like, shouldn't you be like….76 by now?"
Then the silhouette began to dance. It was tapping its feet and moving its arms before dancing down the corridor.
"Hot Pants, wait up!" Stan yelled out before running out of the bathroom to chase his ex.
He followed her down the corridor where it suddenly turned into a 1950's diner and that's when he saw her dancing by the jukebox. Tapping her feet and moving her arms.
Stan then began to his ex girlfriend where he himself began to dance for some reason. "Woah! What's happening to my body? I'm dancing without any kind of control! Just like the good ol' decade. Hey Hot Pants, what took you so long. Realised that bellbottoms weren't your style?"
"Who are you calling hot pants?" She asked. "If I recall you were hot pants."
"Well, my pants weren't that hot." Stan said. "I didn't flash my ankles like you did."
"I didn't mean it that way." She said, her voice suddenly becoming deeper.
Stan then looked down at his pants and noticed that they were on fire. "Ahhh!" He screamed as the fire spread through his pants and then engulfed his entire body while McCorkle's laugh suddenly became more deeper and deeper.
A few minutes later, Ford was walking around the Shack looking for his brother. "Stanley? Stanley?" He walked into the living room, not seeing the pile of ashes on the floor with a candy corn on top. "Stanley? Stanley?"
A while later, the party had just started with many people in costumes in attendance. Everyone from dressing up in not-so scary costumes to scary costumes to the most revealing costumes. There was dancing, flirting and snacking on all the junk at the snack table.
The most notable guests were Manly Dan dressed as a giant lizard man, Blubs and Durland dressed like each other and professional female anchor Sandra Jimenez dressed like a mummy.
At the party, Mabel was busy drinking some beverage from her red cup where she was tackled in a hug by Candy, whom was dressed like some video game console known as O.M.B.
"Mabel!" Candy exclaimed happily.
Mabel screamed and returned the hug. "Candy! Oh, that is an amazing costume!"
"And your costume is….A little revealing." She remarked Mabel showing off a lot of leg.
"Yup!"
Candy removed herself from the hug. "Is this an attempt to have breakfast with a guy?"
"Yup. But instead of being more forward, I'm just going to stand here and let the legs do the talking." Mabel flash her leg to a random passing guy. "Wa bam!"
The guy just stared at Mabel with a deadpanned expression before rescuing for a triangle sandwich and taking it with him.
"Awww!" She groaned.
"If Candy is beaten by Grenda again then Candy is gonna get rage filled!" Candy exclaimed.
"So is Mabel!" Mabel said. "But that's not important because…." Another guy walked up to the snack table and Mabel shot her leg out. "…Wa bam!"
The man stared at the girl with a disinterested look. "I have a wife."
"Awww!" She groaned loud before turning to Candy. "Keep an eye out for Grenda. She could be anywhere."
"Don't worry, Candy is always watching." Candy said before she began walking backwards into the crowd without bumping into anyone. Dumb luck, Stan would call it.
Then, Hunter and Willow arrived at the party dressed in their respective Cosmic Frontier uniforms with Willow looking excited while Hunter looked nervous.
"Are you excited Hunter?" Willow asked her boyfriend.
Hunter began to sweat nervously since he was still worrying about losing his girlfriend. "Yeah, I'm fine."
Willow then noted how sweaty he looked. "You okay, babe?"
"Yeah." Hunter lied as he began to pull on his collar. "I'm fine. Just a little hot that's all."
Willow wiped some sweat from her brow. "Yeah. Humidity is a little worse than I thought it would have been."
"Yeah. How do humans get used to this?" Hunter asked.
"I don't know." She replied as she looked around the dance floor at the costumes. "I heard from Mabel that people dress like people from the Demon Realm sometimes and she is right."
"Cool." Hunter just said.
"I mean, we have people dressed like twig foot, opossums and look there's a really good Lenderman costume with Dipper."
Dipper, was standing by the drink stand with a Slender Man type figure whom was complaining. "Anyway, I saw that insulting adaptation of me the other day, I am not supposed to be that funny."
"It's a horror movie." Dipper said.
"It was supposed to be a scary movie?!" Slender Man exclaimed in shock. "Well, that explains why everyone was laughing."
Then Wendy approached the two. "Yo Dipper, hey Slender Man."
"Hey, Wendy, how are you doing?" Slender Man asked.
"Eh, not so bad." Wendy replied. "Stan's gone missing and I was trying to find him."
"He's probably out finding stray pugs for his pug smuggling side business." Dipper theorised.
"Maybe." Dipper said. "By the way, have I mentioned that costume looks cool on you?"
"No but I knew that's what you wanted to say." Wendy retorted, referring to him being a blushing mess this morning.
"Yeah…." Dipper's cheeks turned red as he continued to stare at Wendy's outfit.
"These make me look cooler though." She then aimed the guns at Dipper. "Bang! Bang! Bang!" She then accidentally dropped one of them. "Whoops." Wendy began to reach down for the gun.
"I got it." Dipper then reached down for it as well. But when they both reached for the plastic gun, their hands touched.
And because of that touch, the two began to stare at each other with a shimmer in their eyes and their cheeks turning red. The two shared a smile and then laughed.
"You know dual wielding guns is technically impossible, right?" Dipper asked.
"Yeah." Wendy said as she awkwardly chuckled. Then, they continued to stare at each other while Slender Man just watched on.
"Well, I'm out." Slender Man declared before he tried to drink his drink, but due to a lack of mouth, he spilt it on his suit. "Uh…Why did I think that would happen?" He then walked away while Dipper and Wendy stared at each other.
They quickly removed their hands from each other, cheeks still blushing. But when they realised what they did, they quickly walked away.
Dipper stood where the DJ was performing the music and began to feel annoyed. "Uh! Why?! Why?! Why are you falling for Wendy?! You're grieving you idiot!"
Meanwhile, Wendy was in the bathroom yelling at herself in the mirror. "He is still grieving! Why do you want to take advantage of him? Uh! Of all the moments to be attracted to Dipper, why did it need to be after his girlfriend died?! Uh! I am awful!"
Back on the dance floor, Hunter and Willow were dancing together on the dance floor. With Willow moving her arms and feet about while Hunter was doing a poor attempt at the worm which made Willow chuckle.
"You're a little rusty at dancing." Willow remarked.
Hunter jumped up. "Sorry! Emeperor's Coven never taught me to dance. Not even at formal events like this one."
Willow chuckled since this party was less than formal. "Yeah! Have you seen Stan anywhere? I heard Ford was looking for him."
"I don't know." Hunter said. "He couldn't have gone far."
"I mean, I heard he had a criminal history." Willow said. "Maybe he's been arrested."
"Oh no, little elf, we didn't arrest him." Sheriff Blubs informed her.
"Yeah, me and my husband would have arrested him by now!" Deputy Durland said.
"It's like he disappeared off the face of the Human Realm." Willow said.
In that moment, Hunter realised how supernatural that sounded and instantly got worried. It couldn't be unrelated to him summoning the Summerween Demon. This had to be a coincidence. He had to find out what happened.
"Hey Willow, I'm going to the snack table, do you want anything?" Hunter asked.
"I'll have whatever my boyfriend will have." Willow replied before she kissed his cheek, causing him to blush before he walked towards the snack table where Mabel was trying to lure some guys.
"Hey Hunter, how's it going?" Mabel asked.
"Well….I'm doing well with Willow even though she might leave me for a tattoo artists if I make a mistake." Hunter said.
Mabel gave Hunter a smile. "Willow won't leave you like that."
"How do you know?" Hunter asked.
"Why do you think she'd leave you?" Mabel asked.
"If I screwed up in anyway." Hunter replied.
"Jeff left me not because I did anything bad, but because he just felt like dumping me." Mabel said. "He said something along the lines of, 'you don't satisfy me' and that's when I showed him my tattoo."
"So I assume the breakfast you gave him wasn't satisfying?" Hunter asked, not understanding what the innuendo replied.
Mabel's cheeks turned red. "I did my best."
"How goes the luring in by the way?" Hunter asked.
"It appears that guys are seeing through my subtle methods." Mabel replied before a guy approached her. She shot one of her legs out. "Wa bam!"
The man screamed at the sight of the lights reflecting off of Mabel's legs. "Ahhh! My eyes!" He ran away which made Mabel reflect on it.
"Maybe I shouldn't have added vaseline to my legs." Mabel said.
Then, Hunter pulled a guilty look. "Hey, have you ever done something stupid due to selfishness that hurt a lot of people? Like…I don't know, summon some sort of supernatural problem that hurt a lot of people?"
"I caused Weirdmageddon." Mabel replied. "I wasn't exactly bright in that moment. Why? You didn't cause a supernatural threat, by any chance?"
Hunter began to laugh nervously. "What? No! Why would I summon something like….I don't know, the Summerween Demon?" His forehead began to release sweat which he feared Mabel would notice.
Mabel gave Hunter a suspicious stare before shrugging her shoulders. "Good point. I mean, you're naive, but I wouldn't say you're stupid. Now, why don't you grab some food, I think your girlfriend is getting impatient."
"Right." Hunter took some of the food off the table and ran back to Willow, whom was dancing with Slender Man.
Once Hunter left, Mabel continued to stand in place waiting for her next target. A man dressed like a shirtless 80's action hero came up looking tired. "Wa bam!" Mabel flashed her legs.
The man just looked at Mabel with a disinterested look. "I have a boyfriend." He walked away in annoyance.
"Don't have a problem with that! You stupid good looking hunk!" Mabel screamed before she began to sulk. "Why aren't my methods working?"
Then, a man dressed as a police officer approached her with a smile. The name tag they wore had the name of 'Vilaine.' "Why, my Chère, I believe it's working on me."
Mabel gushed. "Ohhhh, you're calling me a cherry."
The man with the French accent laughed at her little joke. "Ma chérie tu vas devenir ma deuxième proie de ce soir."
Mabel gushed even harder. "Well, as they say in France, oui."
"My dear, you are a beautiful piece." The man said. "Do you know, anywhere private?"
Mabel grinned. "Well, there's a very private bedroom somewhere in the Shack I can take you." She took the man's hand and led him out the dance floor.
After they left, Slender Man arrived at the snack bar to eat some food. But when he tried to eat a chicken satay, it instead caused grease to show on his mouthless face. "Uh…Why do I always think that works?"
Meanwhile, Mabel led Office Vilaine into one of the shack's many bedrooms. She jumped on the bed while the officer looked around the room, like he was trying to listen out for something.
"So….You ready for our….Pre breakfast arrangements?" Mabel began to undo some of her buttons.
"No." The man protested. "Might I request we start off slow. It's a little cold."
"Uh….It's like, 45 degrees." Mabel said.
"Please my Chère, I have a higher rank in authority." The man said with a grin. "My uniform says so."
Instead of being offended, Mabel did a flirtatious chuckle. "Ohhhh! Officer! I would have resisted arrest, but you won me over when you called me my favourite berry." She walked up to the cop and began to snuggle him.
"My dear Chère, I have longed for a touch like yours." The police officer said.
"And I have longed for a guy." Mabel said. "Didn't care really, just a guy. Every Halloween, I thought I could get some kind of romance but never got any. And tonight, I was having those doubts again until you came about in my life."
"I'm glad, Mabel." The police officer said.
Mabel then froze as she realised something important. "Wait, I didn't give you my name."
"You never did." The officer said. "Oh, that's because Chère, I found out about you all thanks to Hunter."
Mabel gasped. "Ooohhhhh! Hunter!" She then froze as she realised who this was. "You're him aren't you?"
"I don't identify myself by my pronoun, Mabel, I identify myself by my name which you have figured out." He said while Mabel struggled to free himself. "Oh, my dear, Chère, you can't let go of me, well that's because…." His voice then turned deep. "….I want you inside me."
And in that moment, Mabel began to sink into his body like he was quicksand. She also saw his hands turned into something slimy and reptilian. Then, she sank into the demon who just laughed sinisterly.
Once Mabel was inside his body, the demon laughed as he patted his belly like he had a full meal. "Mmm, yummy."
Meanwhile on the dance floor, everyone was dancing to the song that was currently playing on the loudspeaker.
Ford wasn't dancing however since he was still looking for his brother who had been missing for five hours.
Dipper was standing by the punch ball drinking some punch while he watched Willow and Hunter dancing together.
"Alright dudes, one hour until we announce the winners of the costume contest. You better be wearing costumes my dudes." Soos announced.
The witch/Grimwalker couple had been dancing for the last 12 minutes. While Willow was excelling at dancing correctly to the beat of human music, Hunter still struggled with his since he didn't dance very often.
He laughed at Hunter's dancing since it reminded him of how poorly danced when he dated Pacifica. Literally, he was seeing a young version himself dancing poorly and a young Pacifica dancing perfectly.
Then, he felt someone nudge their arm. "Hey dude."
Dipper instantly became flustered at the person who caught his attention. It was none other than Wendy, who had returned from the bathroom.
"Hey….dude." He instantly responded.
"Okay, dude, there's a lot of stuff I don't want happening tonight." Wendy said. "And one of them, is you saying dude. Because I'm going to be honest with you, hearing you say dude, is just weird."
Dipper laughed awkwardly as he rubbed the back of his head. "Yeaaah, sorry."
Wendy knew when Dipper wasn't being subtle. She knew all the way back when she first met him where she always knew Dipper had a huge crush on her and she did let him down easy. But the problem was, she was crushing on him.
Wendy sighed as she decided to have the conversation instead of beating around the bush. "Dipper…I know you're starting to regain some feelings for me."
"What?!" Dipper blew a raspberry. "No! Why would I? I mean, it just seems a tad weird! You know, since you're like two to three years older than me."
"Nate is married to his babysitter, who's seven years older than him." Wendy informed him.
"Cassie was his babysitter?!" Dipper exclaimed.
Wendy froze and just stared at Dipper. "Thought everyone knew that."
Dipper sighed. "Okay, I am regaining feelings for you. I just feel….Guilty."
"What for?" Wendy asked. "You're allowed to feel."
"I know but….I hate it because….I lost Pacifica and…I feel like, it's wrong in a way." Dipper's explanation made Wendy stare at him with sympathy. "I mean, you're beautiful and you're cool and I want to be with you. But losing my girlfriend of many years makes me feel like I'd just betray her."
Wendy placed her hand on Dipper's shoulder. "Dude. Dude. It's okay. I get what you're saying. I know everything is awkward between us right now. With you being attracted to me and me…." She stopped herself and quickly came up with a lie. "….Still going through that breakup."
"Yeah." Dipper sighed. "I know you told me if I'm just grieving then I'm not living and I need to find a fine balance between the two, but you didn't exactly say anything about falling in love."
Wendy sighed. "I know. But you know…Let's just enjoy ourselves for a bit. We'll talk about it in the morning. Let's just enjoy ourselves."
Then, they heard a slow song beginning to play as many of the single people on the dance floor began to leave since they did not have a partner to dance with.
But many people did, including Slender Man who managed to find a Slender Woman and Soos and Melody were having a slow dance of their own even with her pregnancy.
When everyone began their slow dance, Hunter was watching on with a baffled look before he turned to his girlfriend who held her hand out.
"May I have this dance?" Willow asked.
Hunter was nervous but he reluctantly took his girlfriend's hand and began to slow dance with her. Though, she did the leading since he didn't technically know how to slow dance.
While the witch and Grimwalker slow danced, Wendy and Dipper watched the two with admiration. Even though Dipper wasn't the kind of person who'd watch romance movies, he was happy for the couple.
Then, he noticed Wendy holding her hand out. "Yo, dance?"
Dipper was at first hesitant with him being single and not exactly over Pacifica, he still gladly took her hand and joined her on the dance floor.
Their slow dance began awkwardly as Dipper held on to Wendy's bare lower back. But quickly moved his hand to her upper back, the part which wasn't bare and they began their slow dance.
The slow dance commenced as many people and their partners slowly danced to the slow, romantic song that played in the background.
During the slow dance, Hunter and Willow stared at each other lovingly as they thought back to everything that has happened.
Willow never thought in the last number of months, she would go through so much happiness and trauma all in one. Besides being separated from her home and her dads, she met Luz, fixed things with Amity, changed Covens, took Flyer Derby off the ground and most of all, she found someone she can love.
Yeah, Hunter was an enemy before thanks to Luz and Amity's stories. But after hearing everything about what he did in Amphibia, she admired his bravery and devotion to the people he cares about. Which was probably what made Willow for her boyfriend in the first place. She exhaled as she laid her ear right on his chest.
Hunter himself, being flustered with his girlfriend's affection, thought back to everything. Just months ago he was still under Belos' thumb. Taking vulnerable and scared little Palismen to him so he could suck their lifeforce. But then, he got sucked into another world where he met Pacifica and had his whole life turned around. He befriended his enemies and began to care for them. Even though he lost Pacifica to his uncle whom was now thankfully dead, he was happy that he had a girlfriend.
He gave her a small kiss on her head as he held tightly to her. His fear of losing her was very evident and the guilt of possibly releasing some urban myth was worrisome.
Meanwhile, Dipper and Wendy were slow dancing trying their best to not feel awkward about this. But their cheeks were very red due to their feelings for each other. But, they were enjoying each other's company in the moment, ignoring the sounds and gently caressing each other's backs.
Once the slow music stopped, Dipper and Wendy were staring at each other, their eyes glimmering like a bunch of diamonds dancing together in perfect synch.
Then, all of a sudden, Wendy kissed Dipper, on the lips. The mere sight of this made Willow gasp, Hunter to gasp louder, Soos in wide eyed surprise, Melody was surprised while Slender Man looked sad.
"Awww! I wish I had lips." Then Slender Man touched his face and realised something important. "If I don't have lips how am I talking?"
Wendy pulled out of the kiss and stared at Dipper with a mixture of shock and embarrassment. Dipper on the other hand was in disbelief and unable to say a single sentence.
"I'm going to the bathroom." Wendy declared before she ran to the nearby bathroom.
She opened the door and saw Candy trying to get out of her costume. "Candy is getting unchanged."
"Get out!" Wendy tossed Candy out of the bathroom, causing her to land on her back and her to struggle to stand up like a turtle.
"Candy needs help!" She cried out.
In the bathroom, Wendy was splashing cold water on herself over what she did to Dipper. She kissed him! Dipper Pines! The boy she knew when she was 15 and he was 12 had their lips connected.
"What the hell were you thinking?" Wendy asked her reflection. "You kissed Dipper! Why did you kiss him?! He's grieving!" She splashed more water on her face. "I want him to be my boyfriend! I mean, I don't want him to be my boyfriend! No! No! What are you thinking?!"
"I liked it."
Wendy yelped and turned around where she saw Dipper standing in place with a smile on his face. "Hey."
"Dude, you snuck in without making a noise." Wendy said. "How did you do that?"
Dipper shrugged his shoulders. "My Grunkle taught me how to sneak in."
Wendy's cheeks turned reds again. "So….You were okay with that….Kiss?"
"Very." Dipper replied. "I mean….It's not Pacifica but your's was very…..Maple?"
Wendy laughed. "That's the best you got?"
Dipper shrugged his shoulders. "Well, yeah. How were my lips?"
Wendy turned to face the reflection of the mirror. "Well….They were…." She suddenly turned speechless as she stared at the reflection to see something horrifying that she couldn't even finish her sentence.
She turned around to face Dipper, whom was now laughing. "Sorry Wendy. I'm afraid I don't see this relationship working out." Then, the mysterious demonic creature pushed Wendy through the cabinet mirror, going through like she had dived into water.
The demonic creature laughed sinisterly as it placed a candy corn in the sink as its ominous yet sweet calling card.
Back outside, Dipper was sitting on a chair, drinking one of the punches from the punch bowl while Hunter and Willow were standing with him to help calm his nerves.
"She kissed me." Dipper said. "Wendy kissed me on the lips."
"How are you feeling about it?" Willow asked.
"Scared, anxious, happy and confused." Dipper sighed. "I mean, I've been having feelings for her for a while after Pacifica died."
"That's great! That means you can have a new girlfriend." Hunter said.
"But is it too soon?" Dipper asked. "I mean, Pacifica died 4 months ago and….I feel I'm just betraying her. So, I don't know if I can give this relationship a shot."
Willow and Hunter gave Dipper a sympathetic stare before Willow had a good idea. "Look, I don't know if it's my right to say this, but did Pacifica love you?"
Dipper looked at Willow in shock. "Of course she did."
"Then, do you think, even after she died she wouldn't want you to be lonely?" Willow asked.
Dipper looked at Willow in surprise. "What? I'm not lonely! I got you two, I have Mabel, I have my Grunkles, I have Soos and I have….Wendy."
"I meant do you think Pacifica would want you to be happy with someone else? A new girlfriend to help you move on." Willow placed a hand on Dipper's arm. "Let's not beat around the bush here, I know you and Wendy have some feelings for each other you want to explore and I think that's healthy. Pacifica would be happy for you, Dipper. Believe me, I know."
During Willow's talk, Hunter was smiling at her throughout. He wondered in that moment how someone as young as he could be as wise and mature. Then, he looked away in guilt as he still remembered that demon he probably summoned.
Dipper smiled at Willow. "You're right. You're right! I need to find Wendy and tell her how I feel. She must feel awkward."
"And me and Hunter will be by your side to support you." Willow declared.
"Thanks kids." Dipper said. "Man, imagine if my 12 year old self saw this."
"He'd come up with a needlessly complicated scheme to make it happen." Soos retorted as he walked past him.
Dipper sighed with embarrassment. "Had to pull that out, didn't you?"
Later, Dipper stood outside the bathroom door knocking on it. "Wendy? Can we talk?" There was no response. "Wendy? You okay? Look, you're feeling awkward about the kiss and I am. But we're not gonna help each other if we're going to stay silent about it."
"Maybe she left." Willow said.
"Yeah, maybe." Dipper agreed.
"She never left." The three turned to Candy whom was still on her back struggling to stand.
"What?" Hunter asked.
"She isn't saying anything." Dipper said.
"Perhaps she's being quiet." Willow touched the door and to their shock, it was open. And inside that room, Wendy wasn't there for whatever reason. "Huh? Wait, where is she?" She looked around the bathroom for any sign of Wendy but all she could find was a candy corn in the sink. She pulled it out and began to analyse it.
Dipper and Hunter walked towards Candy with concern. "Where is she, Candy?" Dipper asked.
"I don't know." Candy replied. "I thought she was with you."
"No, she wasn't." Dipper said. "She ran away from me after she kissed me."
"Yeah, I was hearing that and I was like 'Yay, Dipper!' Way to go!" Candy cheered before she noted the awkward silence. "You guys are not impressed are you?"
"Where is she?" Hunter asked.
"I don't know. Last I heard, Dipper entered the bathroom with her and they began talking." Candy explained.
"But I didn't." Dipper said.
"Yeah, he was with me and Willow." Hunter said before he began to stare at him suspiciously. "Unless…."
"I'm not a shape shifter." Dipper said instantly.
"No, he isn't." Candy assured him. "Candy heard Dipper in there. No way he was in two places at once."
"What happened?" Dipper asked.
"I don't know." Candy replied. "I think she just vanished. It's like something completely supernatural took her."
All of a sudden a rush of guilt ran through Hunter. It couldn't have been this. No. It's probably a coincidence. Maybe the human version of Lenderman did it.
Then all of a sudden, they heard the sound of someone collapsing in the bathroom and it just happened to be Willow who has fallen face first on the floor.
"Willow!" Hunter and Dipper ran toward her to investigate what happened.
Clover and Flapjack had arrived as well to see what was going on with Clover flying toward her unconscious body which she began to nuzzle.
"Willow?!" Hunter exclaimed as he began to check his girlfriend's pulse.
"Willow!" Dipper yelled.
Hunter exhaled with relief. "Pulse. She has a pulse."
Dipper and Hunter turned her unconscious body around and gasped when they saw what had happened to her. Her eyes had turned into candy corns.
"Willow!" Hunter began to shake her. "Willow! Answer me!"
Ford ran into the area after hearing Hunter's distressed scream. "Oh Hunter, thank goodness you caused that distraction. Slender Man wants me to give him a mouth." Then he screamed. "What in the name of the unnatural am I looking at?!"
"I don't know." Dipper said. "Wendy vanished and now Willow has candy corns for eyes."
Ford began to ponder what this could mean. "Is this the cause of an overconsumption of candy?"
"No dudes, it's worse." Soos replied as he approached them. "It's the Summerween Demon."
"What?" Dipper reacted in shock.
"Oh yeah, I should have told you this…"
"So why didn't you?" Ford asked with his arms folded.
"Okay, so when the Summerween Demon takes his victims due to some over complicated reason involving someone making a wish, he likes to leave a candy corn as a calling card." Soos explained. "And if someone eats the calling card, then they'll end up in his world."
Dipper looked worried while Hunter was shocked at how much worse this got. If Stan and Mabel are missing then, they were taken by the Summerween Demon.
"Soos, I don't know if this means anything, but I was looking for Stan and Mabel and when I arrived at the last locations from some testimony from some trusted eyewitnesses, I found a candy corn on the floor." Ford explained.
"Wait, then that means someone summoned the Summerween Demon." Soos said before he pointed a finger at Ford. "Did you do it?"
"No!" Ford yelled. "You know I wouldn't do it! Dipper?"
"I did not have anything to wish for!" Dipper protested. "Does the Summerween Demon target people who made the wish?"
"No, they don't." Soos replied. "I…." In that moment, Dipper and Ford motioned Soos to shut up and began to narrow their eyes at Hunter as they figured out that he did it. "Why are you dudes aggressively staring at Hunter?"
"Hunter…." Hunter looked at Dipper with fear. "…Care to explain?"
Hunter knew that he was busted and Flapjack knew as well. He landed on his owner's shoulder and began to tweet in his ear.
The Grimwalker sighed. "I….Summoned the Summerween Demon."
"Why?! Did you think you were being cool?!" Ford exclaimed. "I only just learnt of this creature today and right now, I understand how stressful this situation is!"
"I summoned the Summerween Demon because of what Mabel and Wendy said this morning." Hunter replied. "I just….Feel so happy being with Willow that….I didn't want to lose what me and her had. I know I sound selfish, but….I have never been this happy in a long time and I was afraid of losing it and then I'd go back to being unhappy."
Ford was about to say what Hunter did was incredible stupid, but Dipper placed a hand on Ford's shoulder. "Ford, Hunter's lived through a life of unhappiness. So, I think it's understandable."
Ford sighed. "I would be angry but….I can't be angry at him."
"Hunter, I'll explain the life lesson later, but we need to rescue them." Dipper said. "Soos, how do we rescue someone from their world?"
"Well, since Willow ate the candy corn calling card, it means she's in his world." Soos explained.
"Alright, let's go!" Hunter declared.
"Ford, do you have the candy corns?" Dipper asked.
Ford reached into his pocket and pulled out a plastic bag with two pieces of candy corn in his bag. "Had them to analyse them." He pulled them out and handed them to Dipper and Hunter respectively.
"Okay Hunter, on three, we pop them in our….You did already." Dipper noticed Hunter coughing wildly.
"Sorry, I want to save my girlfriend as fast as possible." He smacked his tongue. "Uh! Why does this taste singed?"
"It was covered in ash." Ford replied.
Hunter laughed as he started to feel sleepy. "Oh, right." He collapsed on his back.
When the three humans and two Palismen look at Hunter, they saw that his eyes had turned into candy corns, meaning he was in.
"Okay, he's in." Soos said. "Good luck Dipper."
"Stay safe." Ford said.
"Okay." Dipper ate the candy corn and coughed as soon as he swallowed. "Uh! Candy corns! They're the worst."
"Hey Dipper, before you disappear, could you help me up?" Candy asked. "Candy's ceiling watching is getting boring."
"Sorry Candy….I…." He then collapsed on his back. As he fell, his eyes turned into candy corn.
When he gained consciousness, he felt someone smack him in the face. "Wake up! Wake up!" He opened his eyes and saw Hunter staring at him in concern and Flapjack on his blonde hair. "Dipper!"
Dipper pulled himself up and put his hat back on his head as he looked around the room. It looked to be some kind of abandoned factory. There appeared to be debris of machines all over the place as well as what appeared to be anniversary cards and Halloween cards.
Dipper picked up one of the cards and began to analyse it with interest. "Huh? A card factory?"
Falpjack then appeared behind Hunter and tweeted. "What is it, Flap?"
Dipper looked baffled as Flapjack tweeted. "Wait, what's Flapjack doing here? There were only two candy corns."
"That's because due to a Palisman's connection with their owner, they can appear in your dreams as well." Hunter explained as he continued to listen to his Palisman. "He knows where they are!" Hunter jumped on Flapjack who turned into staff mode with Dipper jumping on and holding on to his shoulders. "Hold on!"
Flapjack took off and began to fly around the factory to lead them to where everyone was. "Hey Hunter, I have a question."
"About why I thought summoning the Summerween Demon was a good idea even though I should have known it wasn't?" Hunter asked. "Well, I was…"
"I know!" Dipper interjected. "I wanted to know, how did you get used to sitting on your Palisman? My crotch feels like it's on a tightrope."
"Yeah, feels weird but you get used to it." Hunter replied. "Just don't jump on without planning your jump."
"Look, there they are." Dipper and Hunter jumped off the staff and saw what had happened to their friends and family. They were trapped in some sort of strange pod shaped like a candy corn like they had been cocooned into it.
"Holy Titan!" Hunter exclaimed.
"I mean, I always knew candy corn was bad, but I didn't think it could be evil." Dipper remarked.
Hunter ram towards Willow in an attempt to get her out, but he couldn't. He tried hitting on it with his fist, but it didn't cause a crack. He then tried eating it, but nothing.
"You're not going to get them out." Said a deep sinister voice that scratched on the walls with his sharp and metal claws that made an irritable screeching noise.
Dipper and Hunter turned around to see a sinister presence coming towards them. It wore a red sweater, a brown hat, black pants and black shoes. It also had metal claws for finger nails and its whole body was like some kind of reptile, cephalopod and amphibian all rolled into one. Tall, slimy, eyes like candy corn, skiing with bits of candy corn sticking out and teeth made from candy corn, this was the Summerween Demon.
"Oh, Titan." Hunter said with fear.
"This…Is Titan." He declared as he laughed.
Dipper tried to shoot the demon with his laser pistol that somehow followed him into the world and tried blasting him, but he only laughed as they did nothing.
"Sorry, Mason, but I'm afraid that I am immune." Then, he somehow showed up behind Dipper and kicked him across the room, causing him to crash into the wall. "But you aren't."
Then, Hunter tried kicking him, but he only went through him like he was some ghost. The Grimwalker landed on the floor.
Then, the demon extended his arm out like a stretchy toy and tried to slice Hunter with his claws until Dipper pulled out his laser sword and deflected the blade.
"Ha, bet you didn't see that coming!" Dipper stated while h the Demon laughed.
"Oh, but I did."
Then, Dipper's entire sword turned into a snake that was about to bite him until he threw it onto the demon who then turned the snake into a jelly snake that he ate.
Hunter tried to once again attack him, but then he got hit in the face by him, causing a cut to show on his face.
Dipper punched the demon in the face, but that did nothing accept cause a metallic echo on impact. "No pain no gain." The demon said before punching Dipper hard in the face with a boxing glove filled with rocks and sending the author flying backwards.
Hunter stood up and gripped on to his Palisman. "Give us our friends and family back!"
"Or what?" The demon asked. "You're going to cause more trouble. Remember, you summoned me so I could save your relationship?"
"What was the point in all this?" Hunter asked.
"Yeah!" Dipper exclaimed. "What is your reason?"
"You really wish to know?" The Summerween Demon asked. "It all started in 1984. It was Summerween. I was just a young man about to give an anniversary card to my girlfriend. On the way there, I decided to snack on some candy corn, my favourite candy. But when I swallowed one, I began to choke and since no one was there to rescue me, I died turning purple. So, now you know why I do it."
Dipper and Hunter didn't look convinced. "Not really." Dipper said. "It doesn't make sense why you grant wishes and encage people in candy corn cocoons."
The Demon just grinned. "Once I gained my powers, I felt like that people harsh candy corns too much and needed to be taught a lesson."
"That still doesn't sound right." Dipper said while Hunter crossed his arms.
The demon just glanced side-to-side nervously. "Sometimes, I want to remind people that the world is not all about them and with these wishes and the consequences….I reminded them."
"That sounds half-assed." Dipper remarked. "You had no reason into doing this, did you?"
"No. I didn't." The demon replied. "I was a jerk before I died and well….It's just sometimes fun being a jerk. For example." He showed the two a drawing of a cute puppy.
"Aww!" Dipper and Hunter gushed before the demon tore the picture in two causing their jaws to become wide.
"See?"
"You jerk!" Hunter yelled out. "So, you don't grant wishes?"
"I do, when I feel like it." The demon replied. "But I also like to encage people in candy corn because…Well I can! But here's the thing, I am a jerk that's fair. So, I'm going to revoke your wish and release them all."
Dipper and Hunter seemed surprised. "Wait what?" Dipper asked.
"You serious?" Hunter asked.
"Honesty is the most powerful policy." He said. "But so is a deal."
"Oh crap." Dipper groaned before the demon popped in front of them and placed his hands on their respective shoulders.
"So, here's the deal, you confess to the one that you 'love,' real or not, your biggest secret and I let all of them go." The demon said. "Also, look at your shirts." Dipper and Hunter looked down at their chests where they saw his fingers on them. Then, he flicked his fingers on their noses. "Ha! Fell for the oldest trick of all time!" He laughed hard. "Okay, go ahead and tell them. You know the ones I mean."
Dipper and Hunter looked at each other and gave each other an agreeing nod. Telling them what exactly they need to do.
Dipper and Hunter approached their respective crushes with nervous looks on their faces. Dipper approached the cocooned Wendy and exhaled.
"Wendy, listen….This is going to be a shock but….I….I have been having a crush on you for a while." Dipper admitted. "I know! I know! I know of Pacifica! But….Ever since I lost Pacifica, you've been at my side. You helped me get through my grief. Well, ya know…One of, I can't forget Hunter, Mabel, Willow and Soos. You're strong, you're cool and…Your abs are hot which makes me realise that I have a thing for abs. But that's not the point, the point is, even though a part of me is still grieving, I'd like to give a relationship with you a shot. And yeah, that kiss from you, was pretty damn awesome. So….What do you say?" Dipper groaned. "Oh what am I saying? She can't hear me."
"Oh she can." The Demon replied. "She can hear you."
"Really?" Dipper asked.
"Yeah, I had this horrifying idea that while they can't move, they can still hear and see." He laughed. "Like they're in some sort of….Dark corner of their mind."
"Ooookay." Dipper's cheeks turned red as he realised what he did. "Ohhhhh! I asked Wendy out!"
Hunter looked to Willow with guilt on his face as he finally decided to confess. "Willow…I know you're probably mad with me, but I am so….So….So…Sorry. I am sorry that I got you trapped in candy corn. I summoned the Summerween demon so he could grant my wish to make sure that we never break up. I know it makes me sound selfish, I know that I was being stupid and I know that I hurt you. But believe me Willow, I didn't want to lose you. You're one of the happiest moments in my life." Tears began to fall from his eyes. "And I was scared of losing you because I thought that I would lose one of the things that made me happy. Look, I want things to work out with you but if they don't, they don't. Maybe we might need more time or maybe we weren't meant to be. But, I want to enjoy every moment we have." He pressed his head against his cocooned head while tears fell from the cocooned Willow's eyes.
The Summerween Demon groaned. "Are we done? Because I feel we're done."
"No, I want to say some Cosmic Frontier quotes to her." Hunter said.
"Okay, you're done." The Demon said before snapping his fingers.
When the 6 woke up, they were standing outside the dance floor by the punch bowl with baffled looks on their faces.
"McCorkle! McCorkle? Where are you?" Stan yelled out.
Then, a young man dressed as a hippie walked towards them. "Yes, I'm McCorkle. My grandma is Carla."
"Awwwww! She married!" Stan walked sadly to the snack table.
Mabel saw the man in front of her and did the first thing she thought of. She flashed her legs. "Wa bam!"
The young man in his mid twenties looked at Mabel with a deadpanned look. "You didn't need to flash your legs. I was going to ask you to dance."
In that moment, Mabel was flustered and then smiled at the young man. "Oh yeah, breakfast is on the menu." She and the young man walked away to dance on the dance floor while Dipper and Wendy stared at each other awkwardly.
"Hi." The flustered Dipper said.
"Hey." The equally flustered Wendy responded.
Dipper smiled. "Listen, I just want you to know that…."
"You don't need to tell me twice, Pines." Wendy cupped Dipper's cheeks with her hands and began to kiss him on the lips. He was surprised but then he returned it with much passion.
Hunter watched on with a smile, happy that Dipper had found some form of happiness. Then, he felt someone taking his hand. He looked to his left and saw that it was Willow.
"Thanks for being honest, Hunter." Willow smiled. "You make me happy as well."
Hunter sniffled as he gripped his hand tighter to Willow's. "Cool, happy to help."
Suddenly, they heard Soos tapping on his mic as he was about to make the announcement of the winners. "Alright dudes, time to announce tonight costume winner's. And the winner is…." Hunter and Willow crossed their fingers while Stan and Ford were pulling confident grins. "….Slender Man and Slender Woman!" Dipper, Wendy, Hunter and Willow were shocked with the results.
"What?!" Dipper exclaimed.
"NOOOO!" Grenda screamed, this time, dressed as a bodybuilder while her fiancé was dressed as a gym instructor. "WE SHOULD HAVE WON! I TOLD YOU WE SHOULD HAVE GONE WITH OUR COSTUMES FROM THE LAST FEW YEARS!"
Prince Marius sighed. "Sorry, my dear."
Meanwhile, Dipper, Wendy, Hunter and Willow were shocked before they instantly turned annoyed. "What?!" Wendy exclaimed.
"That is so unfair!" Willow yelled angrily.
"That is a good Lenderman costume but he looked like he never worked on it!" Hunter cried.
"He was not even wearing a costume!" Dipper exclaimed angrily. "Dammit, Slender Man!"